CAS(E) This Sketch #64

Today, I have a card to share that I made for
 CAS(E) This Sketch #64 by N@ Ali:

With this sketch, I decided to make a birthday card 

for one of the boys in my Sunday School group.

Here's my card:

 I started by stamping my sentiment (from Reverse Confetti's Lots to Say stamp set)
 on some rustic cream card stock.
Then, I masked it off before with using my Papertrey Ink Mighty Oak cover plate 
as a stencil with some embossing paste.
I stamped the owl from Lawn Fawn's Winter Owl
& paper pieced him with some Echo Park patterned paper.
I used a coordinating sheet of patterned paper to mat my card.

Visit CAS(E) this Sketch to see the rest of the DT's takes on the sketch 
and to play along, if you'd like.
You have until Thursday, January 23th to link up your card.

Thanks for looking!

Five more Valentine's Day Cards

On Monday, I shared the four Valentines that I made for the boys in my Sunday School group.

Well, today, I'm sharing the Valentines that I made for the girls.

For all of my cards, I kept the same colour combo: sweet blush, bubblegum,

berry sorbet, pure poppy, soft stone and slate, as well as Mama Elephant Femme Frame dies

and some Marshmallow Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

And for the first four, I used the same stamp sets: Wplus9's Fresh Cut Florals

& Reverse Confetti's Crushin' for the sentiment.

And I added dimension by adhering the banners with dimensional adhesive.

I decided to try and make a heart wreath using Fresh Cut Florals.

The banner die is Wplus9's basic banner.

Here the banner die is from PTI (double-ended banner).

On these next two cards, I used the same banner dies as above and added

a Wplus9 stacked heart die. I stamped the Fresh Cut Floral stamps on

their coordinating diecuts.

And lastly, here's the card I made for Sage, using Wplus9's Valentine Wishes.

I'm linking these up to the Wplus9 Birthday Celebration, Week 2 contest: Step It Up,

where the challenge is to add dimension to our cards.

I'm also linking this up for the Card Concept #3 Challenge,

which is monochromatic pink.

My style is Clean & Layered.

Thanks for looking!

PTI Anniversary, Day 7

I have two cards to share this evening that I made for the
 PTI 7th Anniversary, Day 1 Challenge, 

(which is to use one of the 7 sketches on Nichole's blog and
pair it with one of the 7 colour combos she's posted)
and for the PTI Anniversary Day 7 Challenge,
(which is to use stripes.)

My first card uses this colour combo (but I swapped the autumn rose for a brighter pink & the
canyon clay for a brighter orange.)

And it uses this sketch:

I also made it for Taheerah's Cure for the Monday Blues Challenge #4,
which was to use this photo as inspiration.

I was inspired by the sugary candy in the photo and decided to add some coloured glitter to my
Centre Stage Cover Plate stripes.

I turned out very sparkly!
I added a Happy Day die cut and some Strawberry Patch Sentiments sentiments in
coordinating colours. Some buttons and twine finish it off.
This one is going to Sage -- I think she'll love it!

Next, I used this sketch, but omitted the circle in favour of some fabulous striped background patterned paper:

And this colour combo (but I added a little grey to the mix):

Here's my card, using the new Feather Finery stamp set and die as well as

my Wonderful Words Hello die.

The hello is adhered with some dimensional adhesive.
A button and twine finishes it off.

Thanks for looking!

PTI Anniversary, Day 6

I have five cards to share this evening that I made for the
 PTI 7th Anniversary, Day 1 Challenge, 

(which is to use one of the 7 sketches on Nichole's blog and
pair it with one of the 7 colour combos she's posted)
and for the PTI Anniversary Day 6 Challenge,
(which is to use a word die.)

The first four cards I made were with this sketch:

For my first three cards, I used this colour combo:

Here's my first card:

I dug through my stash of 6x6 patterned papers and found these pretty ones from Heidi Swapp.

I used my Happy One Liner die with a stamped sentiment from Wonderful Words Additions.

Here's my second card:

Same supplies, but this time I added my stamped sentiment on a double-ended banner die.

Oh, and I used the heart border die to add the scalloped border.

And here's my third card, where I used more summer sunrise than green:

I think this one is my favourite! 

I used a Wonderful Word die (I still LOVE this font!)

For my fourth card, I used this colour combo:

And here's my card:

Same die and sentiment as the first two cards,
but this time, I used some Pink Paislee patterned paper.

For my fifth card, I used some Basic Grey patterned paper, along with this sketch:

And this colour combo, but the green is a different shade and traded the red for sweet blush:

And here's my card:

(Sorry about the poor lighting on this one -- it's much prettier in real life, I promise!)

I used a dark panel of patterned paper (it's a really dark navy!) and heat embossed my

sentiment in white (again, Wonderful Words Additions).

The card stock is sweet blush on the right side as well as the die cut "you".

I stamped the flowers (from the Basic Grey/Hero Arts coordinating stamp set) several times in the 

corners with navy ink.

Thanks for looking!

Six Valentine Cards

Today, I have six Valentine's Day cards to share.

The first two are ones I made for the Crafty Peeps card kit club.

The kit that Joan sent out this month was lovely! Thanks so much, Joan!

All of these supplies were in the kit, except for the enamel dots. 

I especially loved that large die cut heart!

She sent out a smaller version, too, which I had to include on my second card.

Everything here was from the kit, except for the red button.

I'm also linking these two cards up to

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Have a Heart. 

You can see what my friend, Jen Carter, made with the kit here on her blog.

Next up I have four Valentine's Day cards that I made for the four boys

in my Sunday School group.

You might remember that I made them treat bags last week (click!), 

but our children's pastor sent out an email on the weekend saying that she would have Valentine cards 

on hand at church for us to take home to fill out for our kids and bring them back on the 16th to distribute. 

So, I emailed her back and asked if it was okay if I made my own. 

You know, because I like making cards. ;)

Well, for the boys, I decided to stick with the same stamp set that I used on the treat bags, 

but I changed each one up slightly.

I also made them for the Wplus9 Birthday Celebration, Week 2 contest: Step It Up,

where we're challenged to add dimension to our cards.

I used some PTI card stock (white & pure poppy), Echo Park patterned paper and 

Wplus9's Milk & Cookies stamps and dies.

For the Step It Up challenge, I adhered the die cut cookies with dimensional adhesive. 

For the first two cards, I used one of the Mama Elephant Femme Frames.

On this one, I also used my PTI Get A Handle On It die to make 

some banners.

For the last two, I used my Reverse Confetti Tag Me banner die, on which I stamped 

the sentiments in versa mark and heat embossed them in white.

On this one, I used the largest Tag Me tag die to cut my white card stock.

I only ran it through my Big Shot partway & trimmed the sides with my paper trimmer. 

On this last card, I used the same banner die, but I ran it through halfway in my Big Shot,

then pulled out the plates, shifted the die to make the banner longer and ran it through partway again.

The "Happy Valentine's Day" sentiment on these cards is from Reverse Confetti's Crushin' stamp set.

Thanks for looking!

Four cards for PTI's anniversary, Day 5

This evening, I have three cards to share that I made for the
 PTI 7th Anniversary, Day 1 Challenge, 

(which is to use one of the 7 sketches on Nichole's blog and
pair it with one of the 7 colour combos she's posted)
and for the PTI Anniversary Day 5 Challenge,
(which is to make a birthday card and to take a photo me holding the card for an extra entry.)

The first card I made was with this sketch:

And used this colour combo:

Here's my card:

I used some Crate Paper patterned paper for my circle and from it,
I die cut a butterfly using my PTI Beautiful Butterfly dies.
I die cut the banner using Get a Handle on It and stamped my sentiment from Think Big Favourites #12.
I added three PTI buttons and some twine.

Sage took a photo of me with my card in my craft space.

(Got to love my aqua mist Gap sweater, fingernails and walls!)

For my next card I used this sketch:

And this colour combo:



And here's my card:

I used some terracotta tile & vintage cream card stock,
some Pink Paislee patterned paper and my PTI Big Ticket Basics stamps & die.

And here's my photo:

And for my last card, I used this sketch, which I rotated 90˚ to the right.

And this colour combo again:

In my mind, once I rotated the sketch, the sentiment strip made me think of a building, 

so I pulled out my PTI City Scene stamp set to make my card.

I inked my edges with harvest gold and for the corners of the sketch where there

was suppose to be twine, I added a bit of extra inking in summer sunrise.

And here's my photo of me with my card:

Before I go, I have one more card to share for the Day 5 contest.
This one was also made with City Scene, but it was made by my daughter, Sage.

She stamped the Eiffel Tower in versa mark and then I helped her heat emboss it in silver.

She had messed up with the cab, so I suggested she just stamp again on a die cut and cover up 

her mistake -- it worked like a charm!

Oh, and here's Sage holding her card:

Doesn't she look adorable in her hat? Very parisienne!

Thanks for looking!

Monthly Moments -- January

I shared several weeks ago (click!) that I started my own version of a "Project Life"

type album that I was planning to make using one spread per month.

Well, this project has been ignored somewhat due to my determination to participate in the 

Papertrey Ink Anniversary festivities as much as I can.

However, today, Papertrey Ink must have known the guilt I was feeling

regarding this project and helped me out in two ways:

#1. They shared a whole bunch of new products on Nichole's blog today geared towards this
pocket scrapbooking trend AND issued a challenge to create some 3x4 journaling cards
(just the motivation I needed to get my first month done!)
#2. They came up with a great name for this new line,
which also fits really well with my project: Monthly Moments.

So, I pulled out the Basic Grey binder, page protectors, etc. that I won and
am using for my album and got to work.

Because my plan is to do just one spread per month,
I'm thinking that I'll be able to store several years in one binder.
So, I decided to start with a "title page" of sorts for the year.

There are four pockets on these pages: two 3x4", one 6x1.25" & one 6x4".

I used some Papertrey Ink card stock (aqua mist & white) and pinking border die.

The stamp is from Inspiration Ave, which I stamped in versa mark and heat embossed in white.

For this card, I used some Basic Grey Carte Postale patterned paper & MME enamel dots.
I die cut some aqua mist card stock with my PTI double-ended banner die & stamped
on it with a sentiment from PTI's Fabulous Frames.

For the centre band, I used another sheet of BG patterned paper and another stamp
from the same Inspiration Ave set.

For the bottom card, I again used some BG patterned paper (it's a nice pad!),
along with the heart die from Bubble Talk, on which I stamped "our" using stamps from
Wonderful Words Additions.
"Fabulous" is from an Ali Edward Technique Tuesday stamp set.
"Life" is die cut using aqua mist card stock & their Bookprint dies.

My next page contains my spread for January.
My plan is to use the divided pockets for one page and to use a 6.5x9.75" page protector for the second page, on which I include a 6.5x6.5" photo collage and some journaling.

And here are some close ups of the four Monthly Moments cards.

 For this card, I started with a base of soft stone card stock  on which I typed my
journaling with my typewriter.
Then I stamped some snowflakes from PTI's Two Feet Deep in versa mark
and heat embossed in white.
I stamped the "snapshot details" stamp (Elle's Studio) onto stamper's select white card stock
and adhered it to my card.

For this one, I used a Two Feet Deep stamp and die for my sled, which
I adhered to my sweet blush embossed with PTI's woodgrain impression plate background.
The banner die cut is Wplus9 & the "together" sentiment is from Wonderful Words Additions.

Here's the monthly moment card where I include highlights from the month.

I typed this on my typewriter onto some Crate Paper patterned paper.

(I'm thinking I might be happier with this being typed on a computer instead, but we got a new printer

and I haven't seemed to be able to print on journaling cards as well as I used to with my old printer

so we'll see if I can figure something out or stick with the typewriter.)

I used PTI's pinking border die to trim the BG patterned paper.

And lastly...

Here I layered a Fancy Flakes die cut  (cut from SSS woodgrain card stock) 

over some soft stone card stock and popped a MME enamel dot in the centre.

Well, I have to say that this took quite a bit longer than I'd thought it would,

which makes me glad that I am only doing one month at a time!

Thanks for looking!